RI-TV: Episode Seventy Seven

• How can we nurture greater alignment between our personal values, our organisations and the financial system as a whole?
• How can leaders in the investment industry set the tone and create a culture that supports people to be true to their values?

RI-TV: Episode Seventy Six

• What does effective ESG integration look like?
• How are institutional investors approaching this? What are the challenges?
• What's the real take up of RI/ESG in institutional investment in the Americas, and how could the Department of Labor ERISA guidance change the game?

RI-TV: Episode Seventy Four

• What regulatory/policy action has been taken since COP21 and what should investors know? Developments at the G20.
• How can investors align investment portfolios across asset classes to stay below the 2°C target, and why should they?
• Reviewing green investment opportunities again

RI-TV: Episode Seventy Three

• What was new at COP22?
• How is the New York State Common Retirement Fund's low carbon index fund with Goldman Sachs developing?
• What might the US election result mean for the future of sustainable investment and green finance in the US?

RI-TV: Episode Fifty Nine

Vibeka Mair, Senior Reporter at RI, talks to New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli, who oversees the $184.5bn Common Retirement Fund about the fund's evolving approach to climate change as an investment theme including its recent $2bn commitment to a low carbon index with Goldman Sachs Asset Management.

RI-TV: Episode Fifty Eight

Vibeka Mair, Senior Reporter at RI, talks to Jens-Christian Stougaard, Director at PensionDanmark, the US$30bn Danish Labor Market Pension Fund, about topics including its significant commitments to renewables: 10% of its portfolio dedicated to direct investment in the sectors - a capacity of 2.4 gigawatts.

RI-TV: Episode Fifty Seven

Vibeka Mair, Senior Reporter at RI, talks to Denis Duverne, Deputy Chief Executive Officer at AXA Group, one of the world's largest insurers, about environmental investment topics including its commitment to issue $3bn in green bonds.

Bob Litterman, Partner and Chairman of Risk Committee, Kepos Capital, is one of the world's most influential risk managers: when he speaks, it's worth listening. In a keynote at December 2014's RI Americas conference he talks emissions' pricing, stranded assets and potential value destruction in the energy sector.

The investment advisor, custodian and trustee of New York City's five pension funds managing $160 billion for the public pension system, Scott Stringer is fast becoming a leading advocate for corporate governance changes sought by long-term institutional investors.

RI-TV: Episode Thirty Three

Does ESG really matter? In this video, Julia Kochetygova, Head of Sustainability Indices at S&P Dow Jones Indices and Guido Giese, Head of indices at RobecoSAM explain the importance of Impact Reporting within the ESG space.

RI-TV: Episode Thirty Two

In this video, Julia Kochetygova, Head of Sustainability Indices at S&P Dow Jones Indices and Guido Giese, Head of indices at RobecoSAM discuss index investing and capital allocation to sustainable companies and projects.

RI-TV: Episode Thirty One

Heather McArdle, Director of Fixed Income Indices at S&P Dow Jones Indices and Julia Kochetygova, Head of Sustainability Indices at S&P Dow Jones Indices discuss what Green Bonds are and what makes them unique.

RI-TV: Episode Thirty

Focusing on resource efficiency solutions is about more than protecting scarce natural resources. It is also about tapping into potentially huge long-term growth opportunities. This video shows a glimpse of the many areas in which innovative businesses are helping the global economy adapt to resource scarcity - and investors generate long-term returns.

RI-TV: Episode Twenty Nine

Highlights from The RobecoSAM Sustainability Forum 2014 (2-3 October, Horgen, Switzerland). The RobecoSAM Forum is a two day conference that connects corporates and asset owners with a group of outstanding speakers. This year's keynote speakers included Chandran Nair from the Global Institute For Tomorrow, Nick Robins from UNEP and Jamie Butterworth from the Ellen MacArthur Foundation.

RI-TV: Episode Twenty Eight

Anne Sheehan, director of corporate governance at CalSTRS the $166bn US
pension fund, talks to Hugh Wheelan at the RI Americas conference on
December 11 about executive pay, board diversity, the fund's 2014 governance
priorities, and collaboration with other international asset owners.

RI-TV: Episode Twenty Seven

Zaiga Strautmane, Head of ESG at Unipension, the DKK89bn ($12bn) Danish pension administration group, says initiatives in Denmark on ESG factors in sovereign bonds have put it high on the fund's sustainability agenda along with newer areas of focus like real estate and private equity.

RI-TV: Episode Twenty Six

Daniel Willey, Compliance Officer, Investment Management Division, UN Joint Staff Pension Scheme, tells RI how company engagements and working with other investors in the UNPRI Clearinghouse is a key area of its ESG work.

RI-TV: Episode Twenty Five

Melanie Brooks, Senior Analyst for Responsible Investment at Folketrygdfondet, Government Pension fund of Norway, is a big fish investing heavily in the relatively small Norwegian market. Brooks explains how active ownership and collaboration with fellow Norwegian investors is therefore vital to its ESG approach.

RI-TV: Episode Twenty Four

Jon Duncan, Head of Sustainability Research and Engagement at Old Mutual, the $262.2bn financial services group, talks about how the company integrates issues like energy security, carbon taxation, water risk and executive pay into its investment decisions in South Africa.

RI-TV: Episode Twenty Three

Christina Kusoffsky Hillesöy, Head of Communication and Sustainable Investments, at AP3 in Sweden, explains how the government pension buffer fund is weighing up ESG integration into its passive equity exposure.

RI-TV: Episode Twenty Two

Adrian Bertrand, ESG Manager, at South Africa's ZAR1.2 trillion ($101bn) Government Employees Pension Fund (GEPF), the largest in Africa, talks about how the fund is looking at topical, domestic ESG concerns such as labour rights in the platinum mining sector in South Africa and initiatives on salaries and a living wage.

RI-TV: Episode Twenty One

James Gifford, Executive Director of the United Nations-supported Principles for Responsible Investment talks about the importance of being in Africa – investment opportunities and challenges - for this year's annual PRI signatory gathering.

RI-TV: Episode Nineteen

What are the key requirements to leverage sustainable investment and establish governance frameworks from a research, policy and investment standpoint? Can ESG factors make a material difference to the risk / return profile of portfolios and how? And just how should investors go about managing fiduciary duties? MSCI ESG Research, Konrad Adenauer Foundation, RBF / University of St Andrews, UKSIF and Responsible Investor present edited excerpts from the ESG Leadership Forum held in London, 27 April 2012.

RI-TV: Episode Eighteen

Thomas Kuh, Business Director of MSCI ESG Indices, takes a historical perspective on the interest in, and awareness of, investing in ESG-oriented companies over the past several decades. Prior to the 1990s there was a scarcity of information about companies and their ESG engagement, says Kuh; furthermore no one really had a framework for analyzing that information. The interview, courtesy of FS Insight and Holland Financial Centre, was recorded during Responsible Investor's ESG USA 2011 conference, New York, 13 December 2011.

RI-TV: Episode Seventeen

George Serafeim, Assistant Professor of Business Management, Harvard Business School discusses the results of research presented in the white paper "The Impact of a Corporate Culture of Sustainability on Corporate Behavior and Performance", which he co-authored with Professor Robert G. Eccles (Harvard Business School) and Prof. Ioannis Ioannou (London Business School). The interview, courtesy of FS Insight and Holland Financial Centre, was recorded during Responsible Investor's ESG USA 2011 conference, New York, 13 December 2011.

RI-TV: Episode Sixteen

Marcel Jeucken, Managing Director Responsible Investment, PGGM, discusses how the fund makes its investment decisions, integrating environmental, social and governance (ESG) concerns into its investment strategy. "We are big institutional investors that deploy capital into the economy, and we have to think about how we do that" he says. One crucial element the industry is currently missing: a way to prove the societal, as well as the financial return in socially responsible investments. The interview, courtesy of FS Insight and Holland Financial Centre, was recorded during Responsible Investor's ESG USA 2011 conference, New York, 13 December 2011.

RI-TV: Episode Fifteen

Attorney Jay Youngdahl, Visiting Fellow at the Initiative for Responsible Investment (IRI) at Harvard University's Hauser Center, says that conservative lawyers retained by US pension funds are reinforcing the wrong definition of "fiduciary duty" with their clients, remaining focused on short-term profit for beneficiaries. The interview, courtesy of FS Insight and Holland Financial Centre, was recorded during Responsible Investor's ESG USA 2011 conference, New York, 13 December 2011.

RI-TV: Episode Thirteen

The Boards of organizations can do a lot more to promote ESG, says Erika Karp, Managing Director & Head of Global Sector Research for UBS Investment Bank. That involves asking sometimes uncomfortably explicit questions about the environmental, social and governance-related performance of the organization. "I don't think the business case for ESG has been articulated well, because if you take each of the pieces environmental, social and governance there's a business case to be made wherever you sit in the capital markets ecosystem," says Karp. The interview, courtesy of FS Insight and Holland Financial Centre, was recorded during Responsible Investor's ESG USA 2011 conference, New York, 13 December 2011.

RI-TV: Episode Twelve

Rob Lake, Director of Strategic Development for the United Nations-backed organization Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI), has years of experience in socially responsible investing. His SRI experience in Europe and the UK has given him unique insights to share in the US – a market in which, he says, there is still ‘a certain amount of uncertainty and skepticism' about SRI, as well as misunderstanding about the relationship between fiduciary duty and responsible investing. The interview, courtesy of FS Insight and Holland Financial Centre, was recorded during Responsible Investor's ESG USA 2011 conference, New York, 13 December 2011.

RI-TV: Episode Eleven

Roger Urwin, Global Head of Investment Content at Towers Watson, says there are suspicions that the collateral benefits of sustainability may detract from the true purpose of pension funds, which is to make a profit. The benefits of sustainability are not the primary purpose; the primary purpose is to do a better long-term investment job. The interview, courtesy of FS Insight and Holland Financial Centre, was recorded during Responsible Investor's ESG USA 2011 conference, New York, 13 December 2011.

RI-TV: Episode Ten

Wolfgang Engshuber, Chair of United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment (UN PRI) summarizes the development of the company over the last six years:
“The honeymoon is over.” He goes on to describe the desired direction for UN PRI:
“Globally represented, covering the whole investment universe and signatories who have impact on major themes.”
The interview, courtesy of FS Insight and Holland Financial Centre, was recorded during Responsible Investor's ESG Europe 2011 conference, Amsterdam, 4-5 October 2011.

RI-TV: Episode Nine

The tipping point of sustainability and responsibility in finance is happening right now, says Noreena Hertz,
Professor of Globalization, Sustainability and Finance at Duisenberg School of Finance and Erasmus University.
The interview, courtesy of FS Insight and Holland Financial Centre, was recorded during Responsible Investor's
ESG Europe 2011 conference, Amsterdam, 4-5 October 2011.

RI-TV: Episode Eight

SAM (Sustainable Asset Management) CEO, Michael Baldinger interview on Sustainability Investing.
Joining the debate will be Daniel Wild, Head of Research and Marc-Olivier Buffle, Senior Analyst,
to explain SAM´s Corporate Sustainability Assessment and its meaning for investors.

RI-TV: Episode Two

David Russell, co-head of Responsible Investment at the Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS), the €31bn ($46bn) second largest UK pension fund, explains how its SRI strategy is not just about risk but also reward.

RI-TV: Episode One

One of the world's most prominent corporate governance activists since the 1970s, Bob Monks talks about engagement, hedge fund activists, private equity and why 'discouraged' is not part of his vocabulary.